Tuesday's Child (newspaper)
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Tuesday's Child was a brief-lived counterculture underground newspaper
published in Los Angeles, California
starting Nov. 11, 1969. Self-described on its masthead as "An ecumenical, educational newspaper for the Los Angeles occult & underground," it was founded by Los Angeles Free Press
reporter Jerry Applebaum and a group of Freep staffers including Alex Apostolides who left en masse after disagreements with Art Kunkin
to found their own paper. It was published weekly (later biweekly) out of an office in Hollywood in a tabloid format, selling for 25 cents. Never achieving the success or circulation of its crosstown rival the Free Press, it quickly attained a degree of notoriety in and out of the underground with its coverage of the Charles Manson
case. One issue featured an image of a crucifed Charles Manson on the cover, and another issue had a photograph of Manson on the cover proclaiming him "Man of the Year."
Along with the usual underground paper staples of dope, rock'n'roll and New Left radical politics, Tuesday's Child devoted a good deal of space to the occult, with a number of issues printing arcane and obscure material by the occultist Aleister Crowley
. The paper folded in mid-1970, and Jerry Applebaum went north and joined the collective publishing the Berkeley Tribe
until it closed in 1972.
Several scenes in underground journalist Chester Anderson
's journal/memoir of sexual excess in the 1960s, Puppies, are set in the offices of Tuesday's Child, where he slept in a back room while putting out the paper and cruising the nearby Sunset Strip.
Underground press
The underground press were the independently published and distributed underground papers associated with the counterculture of the late 1960s and early 1970s in the United States, Canada, United Kingdom, and other western nations....
published in Los Angeles, California
Los Angeles, California
Los Angeles , with a population at the 2010 United States Census of 3,792,621, is the most populous city in California, USA and the second most populous in the United States, after New York City. It has an area of , and is located in Southern California...
starting Nov. 11, 1969. Self-described on its masthead as "An ecumenical, educational newspaper for the Los Angeles occult & underground," it was founded by Los Angeles Free Press
Los Angeles Free Press
The Los Angeles Free Press , also called “the Freep”, was among the most widely distributed underground newspapers of the 1960s. It is often cited as the first such newspaper...
reporter Jerry Applebaum and a group of Freep staffers including Alex Apostolides who left en masse after disagreements with Art Kunkin
Los Angeles Free Press
The Los Angeles Free Press , also called “the Freep”, was among the most widely distributed underground newspapers of the 1960s. It is often cited as the first such newspaper...
to found their own paper. It was published weekly (later biweekly) out of an office in Hollywood in a tabloid format, selling for 25 cents. Never achieving the success or circulation of its crosstown rival the Free Press, it quickly attained a degree of notoriety in and out of the underground with its coverage of the Charles Manson
Charles Manson
Charles Milles Manson is an American criminal who led what became known as the Manson Family, a quasi-commune that arose in California in the late 1960s. He was found guilty of conspiracy to commit the Tate/LaBianca murders carried out by members of the group at his instruction...
case. One issue featured an image of a crucifed Charles Manson on the cover, and another issue had a photograph of Manson on the cover proclaiming him "Man of the Year."
Along with the usual underground paper staples of dope, rock'n'roll and New Left radical politics, Tuesday's Child devoted a good deal of space to the occult, with a number of issues printing arcane and obscure material by the occultist Aleister Crowley
Aleister Crowley
Aleister Crowley , born Edward Alexander Crowley, and also known as both Frater Perdurabo and The Great Beast, was an influential English occultist, astrologer, mystic and ceremonial magician, responsible for founding the religious philosophy of Thelema. He was also successful in various other...
. The paper folded in mid-1970, and Jerry Applebaum went north and joined the collective publishing the Berkeley Tribe
Berkeley Tribe
The Berkeley Tribe was a radical counterculture underground newspaper published in Berkeley, California from 1969 to 1972. After a staff dispute with publisher Max Scherr split the Berkeley Barb in July 1969, about 40 members of the Barb staff resigned and started the Tribe as a rival paper, after...
until it closed in 1972.
Several scenes in underground journalist Chester Anderson
Chester Anderson
Chester Valentine John Anderson was a novelist, poet, and editor in the underground press. Raised in Florida, he attended the University of Miami from 1952 to 1956 before becoming a beatnik coffee house poet in Greenwich Village and San Francisco's North Beach...
's journal/memoir of sexual excess in the 1960s, Puppies, are set in the offices of Tuesday's Child, where he slept in a back room while putting out the paper and cruising the nearby Sunset Strip.